Librivox recording of Spirits in Bondage: a cycle of lyrics, by C.S. Lewis.

Read by Robert Garrison

Spirits in Bondage is C.S. Lewis's first book and the first of his works to be available in the public domain. It was released in 1919 under the pseudonym of Clive Hamilton and was written in a period of darker thought for C.S. Lewis than was later evidenced in his Christian apologist writings.

The darkness of the verse is most evident in Part One (The Prison House), begins to change in the short transitional Part Two (Hesitation) and attains a more hopeful tone in the final Part Three (Escape). Yet a dreamy effect, influenced by Celtic and Druid mythology, persists throughout.

Spirits in Bondage consists of forty poems that provide an intriguing insight into the youthful heart of C.S. Lewis and occasionally provides interesting lyrical foreshadowing of some of the landscapes portrayed in his famous Chronicles of Narnia series.
(Summary by Robert Garrison)

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Artist/Composer: C.S. Lewis
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; poetry

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: squirrel99 - - December 6, 2008
Subject: Spirits in Bondage - C.S.Lewis
I had no idea that this book existed. It is very different from his apologist writings. A "must listen" for any Lewis fan.
Well read by a single reader.